Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / / Nora Doyle.
This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Chapel Hill : : The University of North Carolina Press,, [2018] ©[2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages :); illustrations ; |
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| Summary: | This new approach to the history of motherhood examines the role the female body played in defining motherhood from the mid-eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century, demonstrating that physical representations or perceptions of the body were crucial to defining motherhood in different ways both for mothers themselves and for American culture at large. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798890850997 1469637219 1469637200 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Nora Doyle. |